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Andrew Tridgell Joins OSDL

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-for-everyone dept.

rumba writes "OSDL announced today that Andrew Tridgell, Samba developer, joins OSDL as the lab's second appointed Fellow. Tridgell will continue to lead global development work for the Samba project."

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  1. There's gonna be trouble this year... by mslinux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First, Big Blue opens up 500 patents to OSS developers and OSS companies. Then we hear that Tridgell (the guy who makes Linux interoperate with Windows computers) gets a job at OSDL... is it just me or is something BIG about to go down?

    I smell trouble and it smells like Sun and MS ;)

  2. For the mere mortal geeks by Rupy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OSDL = Open Source Development Labs
    See Wikipedia for more info

  3. Excuse me, Simon... by ashitaka · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When you add a great new feature such as supporting Windows machine accounts on Samba make sure your user community is aware that it will completely screw up rights assignments on your servers as the new machine accounts get assigned to old user UIDs by winbind.

    I just spent a harried morning resetting all files back to their correct owners and groups.

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    1. Re:Excuse me, Simon... by ashitaka · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You know how Winbind works with Samba right?

      You set a UID and GID range in smb.conf like so:

      winbind uid = 10000-20000
      winbind gid = 10000-20000

      So your user billg gets assigned UID 10004 for example.

      Now this is all running fine until you run up2date samba or do a manual upgrade and you get the new version that suppports machine accounts. All of a sudden 10004 is now the UID for MYDELLPC$ and Bill has lost access to his files.

      Lovely little gotcha.

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